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Book Adaptations: A Summer Place (1959)
This week Samantha compares the novel and movie versions of A Summer Place . The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a book heralded for...

Samantha Glasser
Jun 275 min read


Book Adaptations: My Sister Eileen
"My sister Eileen and I, movie fans when we were five and six, respectively, would have scorned Mickey Mouse in our youth; we preferred...

Samantha Glasser
Mar 285 min read


Book Adaptations: The Lost Weekend (1945)
In this bonus blog, Samantha compares the novel and the film versions of The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson, the Academy Award winner...

Samantha Glasser
Jan 315 min read


Book Adaptations: Forever Amber (1947)
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor is a sweeping novel that follows the exploits of a young girl who grew up on a farm but dreamed of...

Samantha Glasser
Oct 23, 20245 min read


Book Adaptations: Above Suspicion (1943)
Civilians become spies for the Allies in this thriller adapted from a best-selling novel to the silver screen. Helen MacInnes's Above...

Samantha Glasser
Feb 15, 20223 min read


Oh, Money! Money! vs. Has Anybody Seen My Gal
In 1918, Eleanor H. Porter published a novel titled Oh, Money! Money!, a light comedy about the influence of inherited money on the...

Samantha Glasser
Sep 14, 20203 min read


Lillian Roth: A Success Story
Lillian Roth was once a rising star, a singer with a powerful brassy voice and a charming dimpled smile that seemed destined for great...

Samantha Glasser
Jul 16, 20203 min read
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